By Dominic Taylor
A notorious man has been accused of killing his ex wife’s divorce lawyer after being embittered against the lawyer who representing his ex wife in legally sealing their divorce.
Allen Tayeh went to the office of a lawyer representing a woman in the process of divorcing him and shot the attorney, Doug Lewis, there on 7 December.
He then set his office was set on fire following the acrimonious legal battle which wrecked his joy and empty hope of reconciling with his wife.
Firefighters who arrived on the scene around 5:30 pm Wednesday found Lewis’ body inside the burned building. Police soon arrested Tayeh, who was walking away from the scene at the time
Tayeh allegedly had a revolver on him and spent shell casings, the incident report says, as well as burns on his hands, hair and clothing.
Police in the community of Lawrenceville allege that Allen Tayeh went to the office of a lawyer representing a woman in the process of divorcing him and shot the attorney, Doug Lewis, there on 7 December.
Lewis’s murder and the destruction of his office stunned the legal community in Lawrenceville, a city of 30,000 people just 30 miles from Atlanta.
“Doug was a consummate gentleman,” Lewis’s fellow attorney, Phil McCurdy, said to KENS the day after the killing. “I never heard him raise his voice, I never saw him lose his temper. I never saw him treat anyone except with respect.
“I don’t know anyone who didn’t respect him as a colleague, as a professional and as a human being.”
A former law partner of Lewis, Jesse Kent, remembered him as an attentive husband to his wife and doting father to his children.
“He was the standard that all lawyers – including me – aspired to be,” Kent wrote in an email to the local station. “The legal profession will never be the same without him.”.